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Saint (“the Venerable Bede” ), a.d. 673?–735, English monk, historian, and theologian: wrote earliest history of England. |
| Bede (bēd) Anglo-Saxon theologian and historian whose major work, Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation (731), written in Latin, remains an important source of ancient English history. He introduced the method of dating events from the birth of Christ. |